Compositional generalization from first principles

T Wiedemer, P Mayilvahanan… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Leveraging the compositional nature of our world to expedite learning and facilitate
generalization is a hallmark of human perception. In machine learning, on the other hand …

Additive decoders for latent variables identification and cartesian-product extrapolation

S Lachapelle, D Mahajan, I Mitliagkas… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We tackle the problems of latent variables identification and" out-of-support''image
generation in representation learning. We show that both are possible for a class of …

Provably learning object-centric representations

J Brady, RS Zimmermann, Y Sharma… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Learning structured representations of the visual world in terms of objects promises to
significantly improve the generalization abilities of current machine learning models. While …

Function classes for identifiable nonlinear independent component analysis

S Buchholz, M Besserve… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Unsupervised learning of latent variable models (LVMs) is widely used to represent data in
machine learning. When such model reflects the ground truth factors and the mechanisms …

Biscuit: Causal representation learning from binary interactions

P Lippe, S Magliacane, S Löwe… - Uncertainty in …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Identifying the causal variables of an environment and how to intervene on them is of core
value in applications such as robotics and embodied AI. While an agent can commonly …

High fidelity image counterfactuals with probabilistic causal models

FDS Ribeiro, T **a, M Monteiro, N Pawlowski… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present a general causal generative modelling framework for accurate estimation of high
fidelity image counterfactuals with deep structural causal models. Estimation of …

From identifiable causal representations to controllable counterfactual generation: A survey on causal generative modeling

A Komanduri, X Wu, Y Wu, F Chen - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.11011, 2023 - arxiv.org
Deep generative models have shown tremendous success in data density estimation and
data generation from finite samples. While these models have shown impressive …

Causal representation learning for instantaneous and temporal effects in interactive systems

P Lippe, S Magliacane, S Löwe, YM Asano… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Causal representation learning is the task of identifying the underlying causal variables and
their relations from high-dimensional observations, such as images. Recent work has shown …

Deep backtracking counterfactuals for causally compliant explanations

KR Kladny, J von Kügelgen, B Schölkopf… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Counterfactuals can offer valuable insights by answering what would have been observed
under altered circumstances, conditional on a factual observation. Whereas the classical …

Independent Mechanism Analysis and the Manifold Hypothesis

S Ghosh, L Gresele, J von Kügelgen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Independent Mechanism Analysis (IMA) seeks to address non-identifiability in nonlinear
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) by assuming that the Jacobian of the mixing …